Editing Selinunte (section)

===Cave di Cusa===
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[[File:Rocche-di-Cusa-bjs-1.jpg|thumb|right|250 px|Cave di Cusa : Two column blocks for Temple G, still attached to the bedrock]]
'''Cave di Cusa''' (The Quarries of Cusa) are made up of banks of [[limestone]] near Campobello di Mazara, thirteen kilometres from Selinus. They were the stone quarries from which the material for the buildings of Selinus came. The most notable element of the quarries is the sudden interruption of operations caused by the attack on the city in 409&nbsp;BC. The sudden departure of the quarrymen, stonemasons and other workers means that today it is possible not just to reconstruct, but to see all the various stages of the quarrying process from the first deep circular cuts to the finished drums waiting to be transported. Along with the column drums, there are also some capitals and also square incisions for quarrying square blocks, all intended for the temples of Selinus. Of the drums that had already been extracted, some were found ready for transport and others, already on the way to Selinus were abandoned on the road. Some gigantic columns, definitely intended for Temple G, are found in the area west of Cave di Cusa, also in the state in which they were originally abandoned.